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Re:My Sony "smart" TV has updated itself and tried to force ... by dreamcompiler on Sunday April 01, 2018 @03:21PM (#16729947)
My intention -- the next time I buy a TV -- is simply to never tell it my wifi password. Do these things refuse to work without internet access?
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Re:My Sony "smart" TV has updated itself and tried to force ... by propogandist on Sunday April 01, 2018 @04:13PM (#16730192)
they do work without internet access. You can also tell your TV to try to access the internet via Ethernet (w/o having it plugged in) and that will usually shut down all the intrusive BS (at-least on Samsung "smart TVs")
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Re:My Sony "smart" TV has updated itself and tried to force ... by petepete on Sunday April 01, 2018 @05:58PM (#16730723)
I use a DNS blacklist to prevent my Samsung TV from displaying ads in the UI

https://gist.github.com/peteryates/b44b70d19ccd52f62d66cdd4b...

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